The Far Green Country

“Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom?”
(Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ, 52)

Another thought from the Scot - this time, on the topic of music in public worship. Given his context, the reference is most likely to acapella music. Yet much of what he says is valuable even for those of us who don’t share his convictions in this regard:
“There are few matters connected with public worship [...]

One of the books I read for my Winter term course on pastoral theology was William G. Blaikie’s For the Work of the Ministry.  Blaikie was a 19th century Free Church of Scotland minister.  This book is a real treasure trove - as I wrote to my professor, “it is to pastoral theology what The [...]